Opening Quotes
1144 quotes by 951 authors
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We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!
— Edith Wharton
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens…
— Gabe Jennings
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The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
— Timothy Leary
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Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie…
— Charles Kelley
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The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to…
— Barry Lopez
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There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look…
— Cecelia Ahern
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It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess…
— Russell Simmons
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
— Jack Kornfield
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In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is.…
— Jack Kornfield
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When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The Bauls say, "Don't try to force anything." Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the…
— Rajneesh
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If you are seeking for security, certainty, your eyes will become closed. And you will be less and less surprised and you will lose the…
— Rajneesh
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Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of…
— Jules Henry
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Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening…
— John Ruskin
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The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the…
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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Meditation is to attain to a no-mindness, to a state of no-thought. In that opening of no-thought, in that kind of space, suddenly you become…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with…
— Rajneesh
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Friendship is all about opening up and letting in the highest-quality people you can find. It's about trusting a person enough to know that your…
— Sean Stephenson
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It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to…
— Dalai Lama
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